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1 copy of Miftāḥ al-jinān by Muḥammad Mujīr Mujībah Adīb

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Title: Miftāḥ al-jinān
Title: مفتاح الجنان

Treatise on Sufi devotions and instructions by Muḥammad Mujīr [ibn] Mujībah Adīb, the disciple of the Sufi Shaykh Nayyir al-Dīn Dihlavī (d. 757/1357).

The work is comprised of twenty-five chapters termed bāb, with further subdivisions.

Dated colophon (f. 245r): completed by Sunday, 19 Shavvāl 101[0]/12 April 1602, in the reign of Emperor Akbar I.

Crude illuminated headpiece or sarlawḥ at beginning (f. 1v).

Neat nastaʿlīq-i khafī alongside s̲uls̲ tending to bihārī.

Annotations in margins by multiple hands, including bihārī.

Persian foliation.

Folios detached.

Author: Muḥammad Mujīr Mujībah Adīb محمّد مجير مجيبه اديب

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 245 ff. (+6)
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 165 mm.

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History

Origin: 19_Shavval_1010 AH; 12 April 1602 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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